Acorn Systems provides a Enterprise Profit System with a next generation Activity Based Costing system.  Such systems used to make accountants salivate, but these days these systems are providing accurate and timely information to many divergent departments and individuals in the organization. 

Anyone that understands the business dynamics of their company can learn to speak the language of these systems as they become easier and easier for non-IT professions to interface with results about the business, the books, the inventory and the data warehouses IT systems themselves. 

These same tools will wipe out many of the low level accounting and analysis positions that historically have churned the same report over and over again, passing it up the chain for further churning and analysis and consolidation.  These systems can provide answers in real time that previously took a month or better to determine when handled in manual spreadsheets.

Acorn Systems recent press release describes their consulting methodology that applies corporate performance management techniques to help the team adapt and learn how to use the systems necessary to succeed.  Acorn can help companies build or rebuild a  solid foundation and outline concrete and measurable goals and metrics.  This process should involve the entire business, supply chain, sales force or customer support group depending on the scope of the project.  Companies that make these investments will be capable of continuing to increase their productivity and increase the likelihood of providing accurate and responsive customer support, even providing more accurate estimates, request for proposals and government or other contracting bids.

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